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America: A 200 Year Salute in Story and Song

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Released
  
July 1972

Length
  
32:57

Release date
  
July 1972

Label
  
Columbia Records

Recorded
  
July 1970

Artist
  
Johnny Cash

Producer
  
Larry Butler

Genre
  
Country music

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America A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song (1972)
  
The Johnny Cash Family Christmas (1972)

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Johnny Cash albums, Country music albums

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America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song is a concept album and the 40th overall album by country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1972 (see 1972 in music). As its title suggests, it comprises a number of tracks dedicated to the topic of American history, not unlike several of Cash's other Americana albums. The record is a mix of songs and narration, in which Cash attempts to describe elements of the country's past, including famous personalities like Paul Revere or Big Foot. America also includes a re-recording of "Mr. Garfield" and "The Road to Kaintuck", songs previously released as singles in 1965 on Sings the Ballads of the True West. Most of the tracks on the album were written by Cash, with some exceptions, including a rendition of the well-known song "The Battle of New Orleans" and a reading of Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address. The album was included on the Bear Family box set Come Along and Ride This Train.

Contents

Personnel

  • Johnny Cash: vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Carl Perkins: electric guitar
  • Bob Wootton: electric guitar, gut-string guitar
  • WS Holland: drums
  • Marshall Grant: bass
  • Red Lane: rhythm guitar, gut-string guitar
  • Chuck Cochran: piano
  • Norman Blake: rhythm guitar, gut-string guitar, banjo
  • Mark Morris: percussion
  • Charlie McCoy: harmonica, bass
  • Ray Edenton: rhythm guitar
  • Additional personnel

  • Produced by: Larry Butler
  • Dialogue written by: Johnny Cash
  • Cover design: Bill Barnes
  • Cover photo: Al Clayton
  • Charts

    Album - Billboard (North America)

    Songs

    1Opening Dialogue0:23
    2Paul Revere2:18
    3Begin West Movement0:27

    References

    America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song Wikipedia


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